dream hotel going cold sober tells him tara grant going call him specifically told going to call him friend who told him call closer on the phone call the radio. syria says it's ready to implement the demands of the arab league to end of the ongoing crisis but only of sanctions against assad's regime are lifted. the u.s. versus unesco washington curbs funding to the u.n. cultural body after it granted an historic membership to palestine. the f.b.i. joins the halloween celebrations by sharing its own ghost stories releasing surveillance footage starring chapman and other alleged russian spies. and here in business global markets plunge into another round of volatile trading up six weeks his prime minister called for a referendum on the new plans to bail out the country join me for more on that and other stories in our.

global news live from moscow this is r.t. with me rory seem shy and the information war against syria stop funding and supplying weapons to the armed gangs claiming to be the opposition and lift sanctions against president assad's regime and these are the demands put forward by the mask and exchange for implementing the changes suggested by the arab league the international body as opposed to the regime to hold the violence and start a dialogue with the opposition in egypt. a city or. the protests government crackdowns and violence have continued to play parts of syria the capital damascus is still largely sheltered from but beneath the calm many will remind you that in syria while those most certainly have ears more better. the

country's intelligence service has political clout in syria that's hardly state secret and says the unrest began in march protestors have accused them of violent interrogations. before i was chased and arrested by security forces in a very tiny cell they beat me severely damaging my back and me bill which i couldn't refuse the sole of receiving money for taking to the streets they said were agents of american israel after forty eight hours of detention and torture they took all my money and belongings and threw me out into the street. he didn't cooley is a lawyer who deals with detention cases she says the influence of the security police extends even into the courtroom that. we have three authorities in the country beleaguered with already the legislative and the executive but it is the security police who make the real decisions the court judge awaits for their decision and i feel sorrier for the judge because he's not independent. and could he believes this constant state of fear is thanks to decades of living under the

emergency law in place since one thousand nine hundred sixty three in two thousand and eleven assad repealed it to appease the regime protesters this man who's worked for the more but after twenty seven years sustained gunshot wounds in what he says was an ambush by a group of terrorists we asked him about people's fear of the mob but not accusations that they are behind the violence detentions and torture. this is the wrong idea we're protecting your people are the terrorists shoot civilians you shoot us and then accuse security forces of doing such things accusations that we instill fear also wrong if this person has political activity without any intention of harming the country and he is free to do this and no one will chase him but if he has links with terrorists and works against the country naturally we will be brought to justice we pose the same questions to the deputy foreign minister you know the people who talk to him if you ask me. you know i have you a different view. i have never ever been asked by the security or anybody for

something which i those who fear are either people who. illegal. or carry arms or put themselves in suspicious words well this right here is a very open and colorful slice of syria but when it comes to talking about security services like anywhere it is shrouded by country but here their presence is so widely felt that it's not quite possible to determine just what local feel is normal and what isn't. and when twenty percent of the population is rumored to be in the intelligence service it's no wonder many prefer to keep their voices down in the light of day but within a crowd that fear is temporarily forgotten oh yes i'll take to the streets again and again i'll raise my voice and i'll fear nothing and no one one freedom of expression but we get nothing only bashar al assad and security him and enjoyed it as for us we are nothing why is that. our team.

meantime beirut based political analyst. he told us here at r.t. that the syrian regime fell out of favor with foreign powers which is why then are pressuring president assad to step down. i think it's a conspiracy by regional power they wanted to change the regime of bashar al assad they wanted a different regime different government with different had and that's why you can see that regional power hasn't been friendly to the situation taking place inside syria actually some of these country has been funneling weapons and money and certain i just to topple the regime of president assad the president of syria a good knowledge there is opposition in the country and he extended his hand to the consolidation where then the his country for those people who were asking for

change and that's why today they have a constitutional reform but there is an external power or what they same position an exile those are backed by the western powers and some persian gulf country. western interference in the arab spring has left the middle east and north africa deeply wounded from a support into historian william engle the full interview is coming your way next hour here on our team but for now a brief picture. part of me is a far worse shape libya had the highest living standards of africa before the bombings of nato today the country is in ruins because of those bombings not because of cut off from. the economy of egypt is in dire straits the military remains in control they were the military high command of egypt was sitting in the pentagon when the reports kicked off and we did for a signal from the pentagon when to return and take control of those abbess.

but there's also the palestinians of valves who try to join other u.n. agencies within weeks ago thought it was a triumph unesco where they were granted full membership but the moves cost the un's cultural lion's share of responses which came directly from washington. county explains there certainly was a lot of jubilation in paris cheers went up in the assembly hall where the final tally was announced but the vote comes at a price welcoming palestine to the united nations educational scientific and cultural organization means saying goodbye to as much as twenty two percent of the organization's budget washington is being the agency's biggest contributor so far and the state department has confirmed that they will stop sponsoring the organization on what grounds a u.s. law passed the nine hundred ninety obliges washington to cut off funding to unesco

if it is made palestine but nonetheless this u.n. body facing huge budget cuts voted one hundred seven four and fourteen nations against the admission of palestine a very sensitive and jubilant moment for the palestinians and it's our point for these release and for the united states it seems they've been doing everything possible to do rail to vote but to no avail although the u.n. body in question deals with science education and culture of the vote it's been seen as very much political as the first step but as a reminder of the popularity of the palestinian bid for full u.n. membership that application is now pending before the u.n. security council where the united states is threatening to use its veto power and also the international community is for palestine becoming a full member of the u.n. and the u.s. position on this is considered to be very much by its. all right now that was a. reporting right there let's let's get some more details on what's ahead for the

palestinians i'm now joined live by phone from washington rather by a washington watcher and a voice of russia radio host common brussels a chance he thank you for coming on the program today if we can let's just take a step back a little more of a global look here but how will washington's withdrawal of funds affect unesco's worldwide activities. oh it's going to have a huge impact i mean you're talking about nearly a quarter of the of you in our schools funding you know sixty million dollars that they're supposed to write a check for just next month alone this is going to it's going to have a pretty big impact in terms of the work that they do and they've been doing a lot of work you know a lot of great work over the last the last decade or so actually it was only about a decade ago that the u.s. got involved again and started became a member and started assisting financially once again and i mean that's just pretty much going to. have a go downhill they're going to see the way that i would if you reset it you said a decade ago the u.s.

go back in with unesco but it's a shortfall of what you say of sixty million how else could they fill the void. well there is some talk about other arab nations you know offering some funding as well but because of the charter itself it's going to be you know really difficult i mean you know first of all probably won't be enough because the u.s. is obviously a big contributor but also they can't necessarily use that money for things like you day to day to operations and salaries now when it comes to the public and you know it's going to. the palestinians are going to come to them just being a moated a fully fledged member of unesco now what does that decision mean in terms of a broader palestinian bid to join the u.n. we know in recent months israel and america have been firmly opposed to it with much of the international community saying give the palestinians a chance. yeah i mean this is going to this is the first step i think in a series of steps towards u.n. membership you know the next is going to be more education and cultural

organizations and and pretty soon you know the you we could see membership in the world health organization which they will decide they can decide to accept palestine as a member just by a simple majority vote as you know still could've so you know but however as far as getting statehood you know you want obviously you want us obviously has a veto and they're just there's no way that they're not going to be using the veto in terms of stopping statehood itself so but at the same time i mean up to that point there's a lot to benefit those law from palestine to benefit from member ship in a lot of the different agencies now washington says that the decision undermines the goal of a comprehensive peace deal in the middle east how does this how the resolution of the conflict when frankly we've never even heard of a resolution of the conflict in decades or since the beginning of it all really i mean surely this can't hurt. you know it's one of the arguments that you hear a lot of us once palestine to go you know to negotiate with israel in terms of the

hood but you know there's there's such large factions that such vocal factions in israel which is against any sort of palestinian statehood that has not worked in decades they have not been able to achieve that through negotiations and one of the reasons i think is because they just don't have you know they don't have the same kind of u.s. support that israel has so i mean they really are doing what they what they can in terms of achieving statehood and i just think it's because the u.s. is just too close to israel. if israel doesn't like in they don't obviously then the new u.s. is going to do what they can to aquash i mean that's that's the real issue i mean you're absolutely right it just the they can't go through the channels that the u.s. wants them to go through in order to achieve it as you say the u.s. is too close to israel there but it has many people know that since the beginning of the obama administration there's certainly been a fair amount of tension between obama and netanyahu but president obama has repeated his support for a two state solution to the israeli palestinian conflict do you really think he

backs his words with actions or is it possibly just the israeli jewish lobby in washington is just too powerful. well you know it's and it's really is very powerful and also republicans are very you know very pro israel and in fact you have a number of republican congress people congress members saying that even this even you accept in membership by palestine is inside somehow anti peace and anti israel you know it's really hard to say obama could be doing more but certainly politically speaking it's really rough in fact i mean this is one of the reasons why they have to be the administration has to withdraw the money is because there was legislation that was passed in the ninety's i said they will take away any funding that they provide organizations that accept palestine as a state and that would mean congress would have to repeal that law as well as the administration and obviously there's just not the political will in congress at the time to do that especially in going into this twenty twelve election cycle

washington watcher and the voice of russia radio host carmona russel's the currency thank you. this halloween saw the f.b.i. tell its own ghost story it released surveillance footage of an id chapman and other alleged russian sleeper agents uncovered in two thousand and ten now the agency says that the videos show that a spy ring was at work. and i reports from. perhaps spookiest over all is that this would each doesn't contain any actual spooks there was no charges of espionage leveled against the ten people who were arrested in the united states in june of last year instead they played guilty to conspiracy to act as agents of the foreign governments now that this these videos are to be released coping good stories of course released on halloween something which did raise a few eyebrows however the f.b.i. how they shoot. this is just purely coincidental now the footage shows members of

this alleged spy ring. doing such things as shopping in macy's and using laptops in popular branches of bookstores the f.b.i. saying the operation ghost story sends a clear message to any foreign spies wanting to operate in the united states other critics have suggested this the release of these documents is something of a publicity stunt. reporting right now where you can follow the story of russia's fan fertile on our web site of course r.t. dot com you can find out how the alleged undercover spy literally turned into herself into a trademark after becoming a star media attraction. and a russian paraglider miraculously escapes the cause of death have a look right here landing safely after a horrible collision with a vulture in mid air the stunning pictures are standing by for you twenty four r.t.

. if he's going to live from moscow or the newly elected president of kenya just to shut the u.s. air force base in his country saying it poses a threat to his own nation's security america's least for the facility now looks unlikely to be renewed after two thousand and fourteen when the current agreement expires. explains this news came hardly as a surprise because the presence of servicemen in kurdistan is a highly charged political issue and every kurdish president had to address it in one form or another in the minutes arab raise is a fairly large facility that was opened in kurdistan in two thousand and one to support use military operations in afghanistan it represents the shortest and the

most efficient route to deliver weapons and military personnel to kabul it was initially named after a new york firefighter who was killed in this chapter eleven attacks later that he was changed but it's still colloquially referred to as the gateway to have a because most of the u.s. servicemen who pass through the nasty air base are on their way to combat in afghanistan now according to the current agreement released all of the of these arab raise costs american taxpayers around two hundred million u.s. dollars and the current agreement iran still meet two thousand and fourteen the new president almost back upon by of who launched last sunday's elections with almost sixty percent of the vote sad that his government is going to. be existing agreement but the bay have no intention of expanding release of the base beyond two thousand and fourteen he said that the presence of foreign troops in kurdistan does

not serve the country's national interest and may actually compromise the country's security in fact he said that could this time does not want to be a target for tilly a tourist trikes comment from the anime's of the united states back in two thousand and six a courageous man. he was killed by one of the year's servicemen at the checkpoint to the base down there were rumors the american pilots are dumping air fuel on the village and jason. the man asked everybody so many people would like americans to go if you years ago russia's thinks you can negotiate and reach an agreement with the kurds authorities on the closure of the base and the problem and even passed a bill authorizing the addiction of the base but beyond that decision was reversed whether or not the decision will be implemented this time around is yet to be seen not the sort of voice reporting right that you can also check out her twitter feed for the latest updates on that story if we have look at the screen right now one of

the latest tweets she says the u.s. military uniform is rushing off the shelves at markets all across the cuticles capital in reaction to the likely closure of space there's plenty more from our other correspondents on our general twitter feed. we're just about twenty minutes past the hour here john called cliche has passed the baton of the european central bank to italy's mario draghi but cliche's eight years as e.c.b. took a recession and europe's debt crisis still rumbling on his successor is going to have to hit the ground running. a professor of economics university in rotterdam thinks it will be immensely difficult for darky to heard all the crisis. we think that actually he will be more principled even and he will try to follow our very strict orders ordering on who had. assignments to control inflation.

being reluctant to step in to sell her church governments were interested in her however we're seeing that the european central bank functions on the great political pressures no one knows what's going on or those with the solutions brought for the latest euro dollar bill do their job there's a great deal of uncertainty and so it's very hard to tell how do sky news segment credit will handle the situation and. it maybe he will also do what pre-show do and take these what they call unusual steps to try to stem an almost inevitable crisis. well i mean while the e.u. is a hard bargain the rescue plan for greece's economy comes under a real threat as the country's prime minister pledges to hold a referendum on the deal now we ask you what lies behind the surprise decision you

log on to argue dot com right now you can have your say he has now how the votes are starting up the majority almost forty percent think the greek prime minister has made a wise step so let the population have a say about twenty seven percent believe the move is just pure populism to deflate protests at a quarter say. he's looking for a pathway to an honorable retirement rather down to the minimum here just about ten percent if you think the decision is a knife in the back. of the world up here on r.t. some other international headlines for you in brief but have a look here a passenger plane has made an emergency landing on its belly or warsaw airport in poland and the boeing seven six seven run by a polish airline was about to land on its way from new jersey wanted damage real was discovered by the aircraft so called for an hour to burn off excess fuel before making the emergency landing none of the more than two hundred and thirty people on board. one hundred tibetan protesters have been arrested in the

course of the staging a demonstration against chinese rule by the exiles that gathered for a prayer meeting and began chanting and trying to slogans and amman in independence for back in the fall is home to tens of thousands of tibetans who say they will not tolerate any anti beijing protests. china has successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft from the gobi desert in the country's northwest now it is expected to join another module within days about three hundred forty kilometers above the earth's surface if successful it will be the first chinese docking in orbit the launch is considered a milestone in beijing preparations for its own space station by the end of the decade. ok you're up to speed on all the main news here on r.t. but not business news that's now with korea. welcomes up this is how thick the south thanks for joining me global markets plunge

into another round of volatile trading as uncertainty comes rushing back that's after greece's prime minister george papandreou unexpectedly called for a referendum on e.u. plans to bail out his country last week european leaders agreed to hand out one hundred thirty billion euro bailout and a fifty percent write down on its enormous debt referendum could be held as soon as next january stylebook actually need from r.b.c. capital markets believes greece has played a nasty trick and thus the last week's summit it was a great across the recent hard line from european leaders say there would not be a hard default coming out of greece with this and also with your calls into question as to whether that really will be diffuse or not greece has sizable redemptions that it has to meet in december for that requires the payment of not just the current trench of trucking. but also the subsequent trend and even then it's likely really could be to scream and so and clearly it is this announcement this is not going to help the sentiments of leaders in both washington and brussels

where they make those decisions in the short term we're going to see a lot more volatility a lot more uncertainty a lot more seesawing as we have seen over the past week sort of fortunately. for a look at the market's reaction to that news the oil prices are in the red and fresh worries about europe's debt crisis lights which is trading at ninety dollars per barrel while brant is one hundred and six dollars to barrel stocks in the u.s. are lower taking cues from greece inspired selling in frankfurt and paris banking stocks among the worst performers j.p. morgan chase losing over five percent tech stocks are also losing ground with google shares falling two percent after the company began rolling out updates to its google t.v. service was also down yahoo's also down four and a half percent and european markets dive as well the footsies down two and a half percent in london while the dad. has fallen over for princess percent unfriend for financials are seeing the worst decline with credit agricole down eleven and

a half percent in societe generale fold and over fourteen percent barclays lost nine point three percent and us here read across russia. is losing over five percent this album isaacs is down nearly three percent earlier trading has been suspended on the wires it's due to technical reasons now let's have a look at some individual share moves on my six most energy mage's a down on cheap oil crude with gazprom losing more than two percent banking stocks are no exception would be under four percent in the red and russia's telecommunications major ross telecom is bucking the trend company approved by about programs worth half a billion dollars. capital flight from russia is expected to double by the end of the year to seventy billion dollars the central bank says investors are leaving emerging nations amid global economic uncertainty the performances to expected to be better than in two thousand and eight when one hundred thirty playin dollars left russia in the fourth quarter alone. what people are looking for or why people

are moving the money out of the general market and certainty which is really hitting a population and in that environment what you have and i think why they are concerned about the pros is the impact on council because they can spark a second wave or what i would call internal couples right which is where the population would seriously currency would move to the stronger currency eleven in this case we have hard currency so they would switch the rubles to dollars for urals the good thing for us at this time around as was the case of an eight or nine of the ruble depreciated quite heavily he said you can do that within the banking system so we shouldn't expect a run on the banks but there will be a run on becomes see if this continues because people are very quick to move away from a weakness in this case the threat of civil. rushes direct investment fund is going to strike five billion dollars worth of deals by the end of the year that's according to the founder of a fund bloody made me tear who says that they are now considering around twenty

investment projects stephen geiger from skulker foundation believes it's the right time for russia to attract cash from abroad. what's happened since two thousand and eight and and the subsequent issues of debt on that are now occurring in europe as well as situation in the american economy i believe american investors are taking a fresh look at russia because they realize that their problems than in the mainly emerging economies there are problems in developed economies unlike in so russia with a very low debt load and in a very strong economy is more attractive than it perhaps was two years ago simply because other parts of the world have developed significant problems in the meantime. and so half way to the south but stay with us the headline is with roy coming up next.

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